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20 February 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

SUBJECT: WAN HET REVE, Karel = £839052

REFS; Attached Clippings from the HEY YORK TIMES ata 11 Jon 1970 ané
MENEWEER Gt 12 Jan 1970

1. References reported that Subject, founder of the Alexander Kerzen
Foundation in Amzterdem, fs publishing the writings of Soviet aissenters;
notebly Andrei AMALRIK, Andrei SAKHAROV, Pavel LITVINOV and Angtoly T. MARCHENKO.

2. [Binsoct vas granted # POH in Jine 1969 for une as a inforasat by
SB/P0/M, W. Europe, under Project AEBRGGEEAD.

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V/ritings of Soviet Dissenters’

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Fehclars Haver set, ba a none id whe Stsen ore" tesires
Pout organization, Ve Alex cantata said. “They coniend
_ £°de0_Herzea__Foundation. in, sha there is nething in Savret
Mrlercam, = ta disseminate’ jaw tn prevent them from pub.
werks ‘by dissident Soviet’ lishing broad and thev insist
we. ters. i OF nc reising their oe i
mn cen oe . . dat differentiates the Her-
The perpase 1S to protect the! zfn Foundation from some of|
egy Game anainst piracy,! the émigré pressts that publish;
paliical exploitation. careless’ manuscripts smugeled out of
uanslations ang other compli-! the Soviet Union. he maine
entiuns that have often marked] tained, is thar it has the. ap-l
the pubticatiog in the West of; shovel’ of the authors to act!
Mastuscripis smugaled out of aS their agent abroa oe
the Soviet Union. i Established in 1968
With the increasing interest: wolished in 196 i
‘in -Saviet disceat, scores of The foundation was estah-{
Westsrn pubtigkers jn recent, lished in 1968 hy Dr. Karel van’
smMonthe have tamed to the leg Breve became frendly with
foundation tnx bank rights’ tol Hietarce at the University ef
such works as Andrei’ Amal-| Levden. wit! support from a:
Tidk’s “Will the U.S.S,R, Sur-j group af Durch businessmen, H
vive Until 19842", “Anatoly T° While he was Moscow core]
Marchenko's “Niz' Testimony,"! respondent for a Dutch “newse;
and essays hy Pavel Litvinov}. paper in'1967 and 1988. Dr. van:
Rrandsca af Maxim Litvinov,, hey Reve became friendly with
Savier Foreign Minister under. Several writers who asked to
Statin, ho” helped in keting their’
Thoush thy translations re-1 books published in the West
ccived wide notice in the West-! After he returned to Amster-

im press. littie was known dam in 1968, Dr. van het Revel |

about the foundation until one: Was joined by Dr, Jan Bosomer,
OF its representatives came here another Russian literature pro-|
last week ta explain its rote fessor, who was also a news-
.to United States pebtishers. | paper carrespondent in Mos-
“We received our insniration Cow, and Pricer Reddaway, a
fron the enlightened effarts of Jecturer at the Tondan Schont
AleMancer Herzea to defy to-[.of Economics. One of the in-
talitzrian methods against Rus.) Stitute’s Principal advisers is
Sian authacs by publisting them} Max Havward, a translator of
in the West and sending their: Russian Ierature,
bonks hack through a hterary: . The foundation's proctdure
peacraround, the representa. is to publish a manuscript in
tive, who asked nat to be ident its original Russian text, there-
4 said i an interview. [by insuring copyright, befor
“a (offering it te publishers in
‘lerzen Had a Journal { Western Europe and the Unit-
Herzen, an aristocratic litera. ed States.
1, Since it placed its first hao
Socialism, in 1857 started ain the West, Mr. Litvinav's
periodical, Koiakal (The ‘Bell)}"Dear Comrade” (published

and those of other dissidents tion has” SupePviged —transla-
hanned by Tsarist autocracy.jtions and collected royalties
The journal established a long'for the authors. It is naw pre-
tradition of Russian publishing paring several test cases to de-
in exile that aver the years has termine whether the authors
included such authors as Lenin, ¢a7 he paid through official ac.
Gorky, Trotsky and Pasternal:. counts in the Soviet State
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By normal city-desk standards Karel cused smuggled out thempuail aeconnts ‘
von het Reve wast much af a news. of each day's procer Bas, and when

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soead ho his tags as Mescmy coer, aprnde the trial ended, van het Reve, through .

bet dap the Dutehy daily Het Paral. “Y his friendship with one -of ‘the self. i
. nent fore Hing to atk names acid aes ™ ‘appointed court reenrders, came into i
he recalls, But then, van het Neve was aie shah Moke ep tenant maine _ }
ethyl schol of Russian Jiterotnre who reripis 1 make a ws a i
ta ene signed on with the newspaper Janrmans Green will publish in Britain :
sara wel! of spending a yearor so ih the — uy eh hom hoftt ial is « '
: : Sesh tinion, And now, back at his lee . Sime: Though mue! of the material is :
mat Leyes University, the mild-man- technical, courageous voices like that of : :
ce dP bovewpentd exermierter i sconpe Ginzburg being the combative atmos. ,
“ da card Joy: rechrype the story of phere nf the tral ta Wile 7} thonght and in
Te secal hiv ral oppastion movement in  ” r eae, tah me, me Heelared to .
ceca. 7 hrengb a ferdation named - he pidge, “that i rae age ‘ith -
a! heats Herzen, the nineteenth- femething I should express my disagree. .
fines eesian writer who printed ment openly ed know that vou " red . : °
a » mannscripts abroad, van vict me because not one person ¢ sarge
i ; icle 7 tt-Sovie ity -
tet dee ce has begun releasing a flood of __ under Article 70 [anti-Soviet achvity] has ; .

ciakeritcamd political dlecuments and ever bere acquitted, L will fo off to the
minors for publication in ‘the West. eye ea Seve my time. "e eae . to
; . anh natu Vé eager
“Wi ting only as agent and translator, van reveal how he smnguied out this mass of
bet Reve made headlines with the hitter, dscunentation “Law's jnst sav T man-:
apacalvptie ranphict Will the U.S.S.R. aged,” he smiles. Probably through the
Survive Gnitil 19842" by youthfal historian thac-honored methods of the plain brown
cay at Amabik, which appeared m tho venvelope and the Ingeace of departing.
ee et Che British quarterly Survey, foreigners, he and the Herzen Founda.
ot] an bet Reva gave News. news. ‘ " Ada

. _ ; es tion, which ironically orcipies The fonner
: ‘ CE Kernel an Scie headquarters of the Dutel Communist
canis a bupaee te ME Korein Aeacyaee Uh Comma
chueddoor trial ol four Russian discie Teveiwe not aniy the Amalrik pamphlet
' s—¥uri Galanskoy Aleksands Cine. and the Ginsburg trial records, bat a
Aleksei Dobrovetsky: and Vera stearly fiow of ather anti-regime works
ent ve : including a shorp attack on Soviet politics

aashkoy atin Lice in Maseru ,
L ts Od Hat took pl ter dn Mase Wes by Andrei kharov, the noted nnelear
som Kolunchovka Street courthouse in icc 7

arty PIGS physicist, and a factial account of life
“ Van het Rew s it happens, “cov in the US.S.R’s Jaber camps he Anatoly
eek Reve. as ith: Ppens, “cov. Marchenko, who is stil! serving fime for 4
ered” that tial himself, Shivering with “aRitationl™

rest of Moscow's foreign press corps
subzero cold on thr street outside the
coort, The charges were! jn essence,
cosbeityv in the production of a “yw hite
beh” of alb gedly auti-Soviet documents
foe ermius the 1066 trial of writers
Yoko Daard and Andrei Sinyavsky plns
abesed oolinsion with NTS, a counter-

A Japsed Stalinist. nimed democrat,
van het Reve insists that the Herzen _
Foundation is apolitical. “Our only aim is
ty gis e these people a chance te publish
and that’s all,” he says. And if he can
keep his foundation clear of damaging ,
outside support and free of any pmfit _ i

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